Re: Balls
i thought about investing in them 10 years ago when i got my first bonus in my first job
but as it would have only gotten me about 10 shares i thought it wasn't worth it, as it wouldn't earn me _that_ much if it go up in value :(
Posts by jai
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iPad 3 launch news pushes Apple shares to $500bn high
Microsoft demos 3D desktop with transparent OLED
Sony shifts more than a million PS Vitas
Wednesday 29th February 2012 12:27 GMT
needs the games to be a bit cheaper but also needs a lot more titles. but i can see myself getting one in the 2nd half of the year
the fighting game that uses the camera so you can fight, on your desktop, and pan the vita around to pan the character fighting, that sounds awesome. why doesn't someone do an RTS like that, it'd be endless fun
Apple snags blockbuster multi-touch patent
Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out
Fat margins squeeze Apple against Android
Tuesday 28th February 2012 22:13 GMT
NPD Study
Wasn't there a study last week that agreed that the majority of first time buys were Android, but that the majority of people's 2nd and subsequent phones were iOS. So people get the cheap Android for their first phone, then once they realise they like having a smartphone, then they're prepared to save and splash out of a high-end smartphone. And there must be lots more people one their 2nd and more phone than there are first timers
Proview's Apple iPad rights war goes global, reaches ESSEX
Tuesday 28th February 2012 11:25 GMT
Re: is it just me?
I was just thinking that.
They claim they'd already had a run-in with Apple over the iPod name, so surely when someone comes along asking to buy the rights to a name that's only one letter difference, they should have guessed it was Apple behind it.
i'm stocking up on popcorn for tomorrow's court ruling. going to be interesting to see which way it goes and how everyone reacts afterwards.
Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook
Monday 27th February 2012 16:23 GMT
so.....
if I get a phone call from the office, while on a crowded commuter train using it as a laptop, asking for details about the spreadsheet I'm working on, do I have to choose between shouting loudly at the laptop's microphone, or ejecting the phone and being unable to see the data I was working on?
There are some devices where convergence isn't a benefit, and a laptop and a phone is one of those cases. It's like merging a bed and an oven. I'd like to have the functionality of both in my home, and I use both regularly, but I don't want them combined into a single piece of furniture in my kitchen because I use both for entirely separate purposes, often at the same time.
Molesworth and the New Latin
Sony PlayStation Vita
Monday 27th February 2012 12:23 GMT
Slow loading times? How did they manage that, surely fast loading times should be one of the prime benefits of moving away from UMDs.
I really hope that's just a glitch due to first revision of software or rushed coding to get it ready as a launch title, because if not, it's going to really put people off once word gets around
Sony to strike gold with PS Vita - if it cuts the price
'Nobody can resist the charming of iPAD'
Friday 24th February 2012 15:12 GMT
"Obviously!" so engaged at the sight of Apple being mentioned in an article you were incapable of reading the context or subject of the quote you used.
Unfortunately, sir, you're just adding to the growing evidence on these forums that the biggest difference between Apple users and Apple haters is that the users have sufficiently greater intelligence than haters that they're able to read more than just a few lines before posting a comment.
Syndicate
Friday 24th February 2012 12:22 GMT
predictable
I was really looking forward to a reboot or modernisation of Syndicate. the original was endless fun, back in the day, and surely with today's graphics and techniques it would be a no brainer to produce a modern day classic
but when i heard they were moving it to FPS, I lost interest as I just knew it''d end up the way this review describes it. such a shame, was really looking forward to a squad based rts
Belkin Keyboard Folio case for iPad
Apple files patent for 'polished meteorite' keyboard
Apple, Google, RIM plaster privacy warnings on prying apps
Thursday 23rd February 2012 14:48 GMT
what's covered?
from the tone of this article and the title, i'm under the impression that this is specifically targeting apps that gather personal data without it being obvious to the user?
does it include the scenario where the user types in the information? does having the user link something like their Facebook id to the app fall under this policy? or is that okay because it specifically requires the user to input data so they are clearly aware on whats happening?
just seems to be this policy is probably a good thing, but it's a bit vague on where it applies - or perhaps i missed that paragraph in the statement...
Inside Apple
Fujitsu flaunts Tegra 3 for future phones
Wednesday 22nd February 2012 13:49 GMT
Re: Re: Whaaa?
you mean, "one would hope"
and also, you hope that they engineers don't consider 45 minute talk time to be more than adequate and these days everyone charges their phones while driving, at home and at the office so who's going to need more?
sometimes, the people who design and make technology aren't very well versed in the ways that the technology is used by normal people in the real world
PlayStation Vita price dips below £200
Tuesday 21st February 2012 15:59 GMT
Re: Re: £200 is a lot of money
above 200 quid, it's a lot of money.
under 200 quid, it's in a fuzzy zone that makes me think i might be tempted...
if only there were more games available at the moment. i think the best plan is going to be to wait until later in the year. at that point there'll be more top-title games out, bugs will be patched, and the price may drop a little further too.
Bogus Pokemon evolves into iTunes smash hit
Tuesday 21st February 2012 13:17 GMT
Re: A fool an their money
That's a bit harsh, I feel. It's only a quid that people are spending.
That's the dynamic that the mobile app stores work on I think, people are happy to take a punt on an app when it only costs a quid. if it's rubbish or doesn't work, they just delete it and go looking for something else.
Security biz scoffs at Apple's anti-Trojan Gatekeeper
Monday 20th February 2012 16:09 GMT
triggering a prompt
sounds like Wisniewski is very much a fan of Windows prompts "i see you've moved the mouse, are you sure you want to do that?" and the like.
This isn't so much about Apple stopping trojans from entering your mac, you still need to be careful about that.
But this is about Apple stopping virus writers from using Apple's tools to write and distribute their malware. It gives Apple a killswitch to deactivate any developer who suddenly goes rogue.
Then again, the worry is that the developer id code becomes compromised and suddenly legit apps are being killed because some hacker reverse engineers Adobe's id code.
Apple antagonist Proview unveils its own iPad
Apple's Messages beta will self-destruct on Mountain Lion launch
FTC tears into Apple, Google over kids' privacy - or lack of
'Exploitative' Proview slammed by trademark judge ... in 2010
Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple
Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola
Friday 17th February 2012 10:33 GMT
Re: Jeez
it has an icon? is that it? do you have to swipe your finger across the screen to drag the icon and so unlock the screen?
because, if you had _read_the_article_ it says that "Motorola's Xoom tablet, as that uses a drag-finger-outside-circle unlocking which is sufficiently different from Apple's approach"
So having an icon to unlock the screen is also not the same thing as the iPhone's "drag to unlock" finger swipe motion.
New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps
Friday 17th February 2012 10:15 GMT
Re: Isn't the bigger question
> How does adding a few utilities make this a new OS release?
This isn't all there is to it. the Reg article has chosen to only highlight the changes that are most likely to get people frothing at the mouth.
The cool and interesting stuff they've neglected to mention. Plus, this is only based on the pre-release beta code that Apple have chosen to release. Apparently there are over 100 changes in the final version, but Apple have only announced the 10 that feature more integration between your OS X desktop/laptop and iOS mobile device
Friday 17th February 2012 08:52 GMT
OMG
> unless you can be bothered to dismiss warnings
What's this? El Reg scaremongering for the sake of pandering to the penguin fiddlers and android fanciers? say it ain't so?
all that great journalism that went on last year with the tsunami issue and highlighting the poor sensationalist reporting in the rest of the journalistic world, and here you've gone and done exactly the same thing, skimming the facts to generate the mass hysteria we've seen in all of the above postings.
<pub landlord>shame on you El Reg, shame on you!</pub landlord>
Feds to carmakers: 'Rein in high-tech dashboards'
Friday 17th February 2012 09:50 GMT
Darwin
Surely, if you're not smart enough to know that you can't Facebook and drive at the same time, then we really don't need you in the same genepool as the rest of us, and we'd be grateful that you remove yourself by smashing your car into the nearest tree, bridge, hole in the ground, etc etc.
Revealed: Inside Apple-bothering Proview's crumbling factory
Reptile boffins spot world's smallest chameleon
More Chinese shopkeepers hide their iPad stock
Thursday 16th February 2012 11:49 GMT
Re: Can someone enlighten me?
I took it to mean that Proview only applied for and registered the rights in 10 countries. So their worldwide rights is equal to just 10 countries.
In the rest of the countries not including those 10, then Proview have no rights to the trademark and Apple was able to claim it without contention.
Thursday 16th February 2012 11:47 GMT
HK court's ruling seems quite damning against Proview
"The court said, in its findings, that Proview, its subsidiaries and at least one other company had combined together "with the common intention of injuring Apple," by breaching the agreement over the iPad name. The court, calling the event a conspiracy, further said Proview had "attempted to exploit the situation as a business opportunity," by asking for money."
Paper PCs design rolled out
HD bandwidth limits BBC Olympics 3D coverage
Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade
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Apple's Chinese labourers get 1.6 per cent of iPad loot - report
Wednesday 15th February 2012 14:35 GMT
Re: Match your wage scales.
so if you build 3 ipads in a day, you can afford a nice restaurant meal that night?
and lets face it, these guys aren't soldering the components, it's fitting together parts into the ipad casing. so you can probably build 10, 20, 30 a day? once you get used to it, I think 20 a day should be easy. so that's quite a good wage then, by comparison.
Wednesday 15th February 2012 14:28 GMT
really needs a comparison to how much workers in factories for other products get.
workers in south korea get 6 times the pay of those in china. are they doing the same role? or are the ones in china just bolting together the screens and the boards and the casing and putting them in boxes, and the south korea workers are fabricating the LCDs? it'd be a great world if we were all paid exactly the same regardless of the work we did, but that's not how it works.
Proview fears fanbois will derail iPad export ban bid
HELLISH LOVE INFERNO TO SWEEP LONDON
Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection
Tuesday 14th February 2012 14:37 GMT
was also going to note that the Hobbit figures are going to be completely the wrong scale
also, why is Helm's Deep the large set? surely a full working model of Minas Tirith, or Mount Doom would contain many many more pieces. and be quite awesome too.
i hope they do a Isengard set, if only so that then someone will inevitably do a youtube video of a Lego version of the "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard" song/video/meme which cracks me up everytime I see it... almost as much as the "What's tatters?" one...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
